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A virtual museum and curricula about the amazing labor agitator, Mother Jones

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Which Side Are You On (coming soon)

Ludlow Massacre

Death of Mother Jones

Anne Feeney

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Women and mining

 

Marat Moore, Women in the Mines: Stories of Life and Work (Twayne Publishers, 1996).

 

“Keeping it in the family: Mother Jones and the Pennsylvania Silk Strike of 1900-1901,”

Labor History ,  Fall, 1997  by Bonnie Stepenoff

Their Fathers' Daughters: Silk Mill Workers in Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1880-1960 , Susquehanna University Press, 1999

The issue for Jones was "not the injustice of paying such low wages to silk workers, but the injustice of employing [wives and mothers] in the mills [at all]. The solution became, not a better deal for the female workers, but a better deal for the fathers, who, in Jones's view, should support them." 5

"I'm a Johnny Mitchell Man: Gender and Labor Protest in the Pennsylvania Hard Coal Uprising, 1900-1902," in Mining Women: Gender, Labor, Capital, and Community in a Global Perspective , edited by Laurie Mercier and Jaclyn Gier Viskavotoff, Palgrave/Macmillan, 2006, pp. 181-194